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IBM Corp. has moved to expand the cognitive offerings of its Watson supercomputer by partnering with Baylor College of Medicine, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi and New York Genome Center on several big data research projects. Researchers will work to accelerate discoveries, test hypotheses and draw conclusions by using IBM’s Watson Discovery Advisor tool, IBM said Thursday. […] More
Unisys and Rackwise have worked together to introduce a software product designed to help government customers manage their data center assets. The Pennsylvania-based contractor has also been promoting its data center infrastructure management strategy to the federal sector over the past nine months, according to a Wednesday blog post by Kevin McCarthy, group vice president […] More
Federal agencies have used different approaches to procure cloud computing products and services and many have indicated they face difficulties when they structure cloud contracts, ASI Government‘s Kymm McCabe, Frank McNally and Anne Laurent say. In a guest post published Tuesday on FCW, the authors point to ASI Government’s cloud acquisition guides, where the company highlighted parts 12 and 39 of the […] More
Ryan Hartman, CEO of Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary, said the business is looking to make its ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle commercially available for agricultural and environmental uses, Avionics Magazine reported Wednesday. Woodrow Bellamy III writes that Hartman wants to adopt a UAV commercialization strategy similar to the one Insitu used when it entered the defense market. […] More
IBM is seeing growing interest in the company’s offerings worldwide as enterprises continue to adopt cloud, analytics and mobile technologies. Stephen Leonard, general manager of sales at IBM systems and technology group, said Wednesday that the company’s new systems work to help clients “modernize their IT environments for emerging big data, cloud computing, mobile and social technologies.†“Clients […] More
Two Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aircraft systems have achieved more than 100,000 flight hours combined for two separate U.S. Air Force and Navy operations. The Air Force flew the Global Hawk fleet for more than 88 percent of the mission’s flight hours while the Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance demonstrator accounted for the remaining hours, Northrop […] More
State and local governments are increasingly adopting cloud and implementing an IT shared services model due to its financial, technical and operational promises, says Kevin Irland, a corporate communications manager at Verizon Enterprise Solutions. Irland writes in a Tuesday blog post that a survey by Grant Thornton, TechAmerica and the National Association of State Chief Information Officers indicated that many governments […] More
Merging data centers could help federal agencies save money and improve efficiency but such a consolidation also has natural or man-made disruptions to overcome, OpenGear CEO Rick Stevenson wrote in an article for Nextgov published Wednesday. He writes that data center consolidation is logistically a complex endeavor, particularly if multiple different agencies are involved. Power outages, excessive humidity […] More
MarketsandMarkets has projected the global mobile cloud market to reach $46.9 billion in value by 2019. The forecast indicates that the mobile cloud market will grow by a compound annual growth rate of 37.8 percent from $9.43 billion in 2014, the market researcher said Tuesday. MarketsandMarkets attributes the rise of the mobile cloud era to expansions in […] More
An RnRMarketResearch.com report forecasts that the global market for network analytics products could be worth $1.7 billion by 2018 with a 27.9 percent compound annual growth rate. The telecommunications sector is projected to account for majority of enterprise network analytics usage through 2018, followed by the financial services and insurance industries, the market research publisher […] More
Cloud computing has dominated the Department of Veterans Affairs‘ information technology spending via the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology contract vehicle, totaling an estimated $153 million spread across several projects, according to Deltek‘s Alex Rossino. Rossino, a principal research analyst, writes Tuesday that VA’s cloud spending mainly focuses on mobile and health IT capabilities and services. “In this sense, the […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has introduced a new cybersecurity offering with the goal of helping clients secure enterprise data and reduce network vulnerabilities. The CyberSecurity Edge suite works to minimize disruption to operations, prevent intellectual property loss and counter cyber attacks, SAIC said Tuesday. “This solution provides maximum data security readiness and responds to advanced persistent […] More
